College students enroll in courses which are usually identified by a number. Any course numbered 101 is a basic course. When Jesus addressed the crowds in Galilee early in his ministry, he began with some basic concepts.
Acne for Dummies is only one of more than 350 titles in the For Dummies series. The books first hit the bookshelves in the 1990s when — with the increasing use of personal computers and the advent of the World Wide Web — people suddenly were feeling very stupid, even about things as banal as acne.
Homiletics was quick to note this phenomenon and in the 1990s referred to the Dummies series twice, and in 2017, noted that the most recent iteration of these books are now called, “A Beginner’s Guide to …” (See Sources below.)
If, however, you want to push deeper into specialized subjects, you enroll in higher education. Your first year in the classroom — whether real or virtual — is likely to be awash with 101 classes such as French 101, English 101, Psychology 101, History 101 or Biology 101. You cannot take French 201 until you have completed French 101.
This numbering system was developed in the first part of the 1900s to make it...
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